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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor does Paz use to describe Mexico taking control from Spain?
(a) A young man finally realizing his strength.
(b) A lion cub overtaking its elderly parent.
(c) A phoenix rising from the ashes.
(d) A corpse dismembered and a nation born.

2. In Paz's estimation, why do the common people follow their revolutionary leaders?
(a) They have no desire to upset the progress of the Revolution.
(b) They identify with the men.
(c) They believe in the revolution, regardless of who leads it.
(d) They are intimidated by the leaders.

3. On what does Paz blame "the rather zigzag progress of the state"? Chapter Eight, page 181).
(a) The difficulty of dealing with a large work force.
(b) The necessity of making revolutionary ideals work for practical living.
(c) The conflict between national capitalism and international capitalism.
(d) The struggle between capitalist ideals and socialism.

4. Why did the Mexican Revolution have to begin before the beginning?
(a) The people still held a feudalistic mindset.
(b) In the early 20th Century, Mexico was far behind the advanced world.
(c) Mexico did not have the basic electricity and resources needed to transform her cities.
(d) The cities were not large enough to house the farmers-turned-workers.

5. To follow Paz's previous argument, what is the result when one Mexican confides in another?
(a) Affection.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Dishonor.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What economic goal did the Revolution have?

2. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?

3. Why does poetry tend to eradicate history? (Chapter Seven).

4. In Paz's thought, what does a study of the great myths reveal?

5. Whom did Paz call the "guardian of freedom and traitor to his country"? (Chapter Six, page 125).

(see the answer key)

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